Alice > Alice's Quotes

“Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist”
― C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

“But the law's dream - anyone's dream - would be to turn the clock back and stop the bad thing from happening in the first place.”
― Ward Farnsworth, The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

“In a nutshell, we are shocked by cybercrime, but also expect to be shocked by it because we expect it to be there, but - confusingly - we appear to be shocked if we are not shocked (if we don't find it)!”
― David S. Wall, Cybercrime: The transformation of crime in the information age

“If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is a driving force in a criminal's calculus.”
― Levitt & Dubner

“Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Zijn lievelingsvijandin, de vrouw met wie hij zijn oorlog had willen uitvechten, zijn laatste, maar ze vocht niet terug.”
― Arnon Grunberg, De asielzoeker

“Dan was hij niet boos, zoals je huis niet boos is als je met vakantie bent geweest.”
― Tim Krabbé, Een tafel vol vlinders